主题词：Narrative Theory and Analysis; Contemporary Literature and Criticism; Language, Metaphor, and Cognition; Digital Humanities and Scholarship; Digital Games and Media; Rhetoric and Communication Studies; Comics and Graphic Narratives; Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism; Discourse Analysis in Language Studies; Themes in Literature Analysis; Short Stories in Global Literature; Crime and Detective Fiction Studies; Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies; Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity; American and British Literature Analysis; Artificial Intelligence in Games; Digital Storytelling and Education; Cinema and Media Studies; Translation Studies and Practices; Poetry Analysis and Criticism; Literature: history, themes, analysis; Media Studies and Communication; Philosophy, History, and Historiography; Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies; Gothic Literature and Media Analysis